Design and Construction of Water Transmission Tunnel from Safa Dam to Kerman City Project name: Design and Construction of Water Transmission Tunnel from Safa Dam to Kerman City Status Completed Registration Date 2018/09/29 Update Date 2019/11/27 Manager Kerman Regional Water Company Goals Lowering the city's dependence on underground resources for supplying its drinking water; Water supply from reliable water resources in partial fulfillment of Kerman's drinking water demand; Diverging the surplus water resources in excess of irrigation, drinking, and industrial demands. Schedule Complementary Studies Executive Actions Excavating a 19,000 m entrance tunnel by a TBM (Double Shield) at a positive slope from the entrance portal to the cavern where the machine was disassembled; Excavating an 18,857 m exit tunnel by a TBM (Double Shield) at a positive slope from the entrance portal to the cavern where the machine was disassembled; Excavating a 2589 m access tunnel with a negative 11.5% slope by the New Austrian Tunnel Method (NATM); Excavating a cavern by the NATM for disassembling the TBM. Geography Location Rabor, South East of Kerman, Iran